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Unit 1: Teacher Education: Meaning, Historical Perspectives

4. Commission recommended that instead practice teaching programme there should be Notes
internship programme also. Internship is meaningful because the student is exposed to all
types of teachers programme that he has to face when he is an actual teacher.
5. Revision of curriculum at all levels. The syllabus of training college shoule be upgraded.
For that purpose NCERT tried to achieve these objectives through seminar and workshops.
6. Increasing number of working days to 130, logic underlying the recommendation is that in
larger number of working days more works done.
7. Appointing qualified staff.
8. Developing special courses for graduates for primary training schools. That even in the primary
schools teacher should be trained graduate not simply high school.
9. Summer institutes for in-service training of the staff of educational department or training
colleges, that on regular basis: there should be summer institutes to upgrade their knowledge.
It is a short term course i.e., 30 days or 40 days. Now this span has been reduced to 20 days. It
is to learn further what they already have learned in keeping with new developments.
As a result of this recommendation U.G.G. and N.C.E.R.T. implemented summer institutes in big
way.
10. Abolish fees, give scholarships and loans to student teacher.
11. Hostel facilities and experimental (demonstration) schools should be provided where staff
members of training colleges can make experiment to verify the theories. Even pupil teacher
can get opportunity to work as a teacher what is taught them in training colleges.
12. Subject specialization was recommended to be introduced and the specialization was to be
allowed to a student who had studied that subject at graduate level.
13. Recruit only first and second class students to training colleges. Now third class students
should be admitted in training colleges.
Now, when degrees have lost their validity this recommendation has no meaning.
14. Improve facilities like libraries, laboratories, workshops, etc.
Expansion of Training Facilities: Because by this time there have been a great lack of training
teachers. For this number of training colleges are increased. The training facilities should be expanded
on priority basis so that number of untrained teachers could be reduced. The objective should be to
ensure that every teacher in a primary or secondary schools is either trained at the time of appointment
or receives such training within 3 years of his appointment. From this point of view—
1. Each state should prepare its own plan to meet the need for trained teacher.
2. They suggested a few devise or methods so that number of trained teacher could be increased.
The recommendation was-have more part time and correspondence courses, because through
regular and formal system of teacher education it could not trained large number of teachers
as they need.
This recommendation was implemented immediately.First time it was started in Regional Colleges
in 1964 and after it was started in other universities.
3. Backlog of untrained teachers should be cleared as close as possible.
4. Size of institutions should be fairly large and they should be located on a planned basis.
5. About expending training facilities.
Adequate provision for continuing professional education
1. A co-ordinative programme of in-service education for all types of teachers in the training
college should be started. This recommendation was only for purpose of enabling teachers to
get higher education.
2. The programme of summer institutes for the in-service training of secondary school teacher
should be extended with systematic follow-up and active collaboration among agencies
concerned.

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